113 Sand Quotes for You to Enjoy

My mother died when I was very young. I didn't want to be in the position I was in, but I eventually pulled my head out of the sand, started listening to people, and decided to use my role for good. I am now fired up and energized and love charity stuff, meeting people, and making them laugh. Prince Harry

Love Good Charity People Mother Listening Young Meeting Laugh Out Fired Head Stuff Making Am Up Very Role Died Want Decided Them Sand Use Now Eventually Started Pulled Position

I have always wanted to become a saint. Unfortunately, when I have compared myself with the saints, I have always found that there is the same difference between the saints and me as there is between a mountain whose summit is lost in the clouds and a humble grain of sand trodden underfoot by passers-by. Thérèse of Lisieux

Myself Me Humble Clouds Become Lost Summit Trodden Between Underfoot Always Passers-By Saint Saints Mountain Same Difference Grain Wanted Grain Of Sand Unfortunately Sand Compared Found Whose

The real danger is a politics that buries its head in the sand. Tzipi Livni

Politics Danger Head Real Sand

Until they put that sand and dirt in my face I will not sit in church all day. Alberta Hunter

Day Church Will Face Sit All Day Dirt Put Until Sand

I was really surprised at the success of 'House of Sand and Fog,' because it is so awfully dark. Believe it or not, when writing it, I never had the word 'tragedy' in my head - I wasn't trying to write a dark book at all. Andre Dubus III

Success Book Writing Dark Word Fog Believe Write Never Had Head House Because Surprised Tragedy Trying Sand Really

We will admit that, out of the mud or sand which is found on the seashore or the beds of our rivers, at low water, shellfish or testaceous animals come forth, but it does not from thence by any means follow that they are produced without any regular course of generation. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

Generation Water Will Animals Our Out Follow Admit Rivers Come Course Without Does Beds Any Which Low Sand Forth Produced Mud Regular Means Seashore Found

Do not consider that to be wealth which is hoarded away, for how is it better than sand gathered from the nearest heap? Nor that which comes in from men who groan at their taxes: for the gold that is wrung from tears is of base alloy and black. Apollonius of Tyana

Wealth Better Tears Black Men Consider How Heap Nor Than Gold Which Sand Taxes Who Base Away Nearest Gathered

I grew up on black sand greens. The best tees were old, dry cowpies, believe it or not. Billy Casper

Best Old Black Believe Dry Were Up Greens Grew Sand

Skiing sand in midday sun was impossible - the sand becomes hot and abrasive. Candide Thovex

Impossible Sun Hot Becomes Midday Sand Skiing

I don't want to kill ads. I think advertising is great, and I'm very aware that there's multiple revenue streams in television, subscription and advertising. But I also don't want to put my head in the sand, and I think the world is changing. Charlie Ergen

Great World Think Changing Television Ads Put Head Also Advertising Revenue Very Subscription Want Sand Multiple Aware Streams

There's so much burying of heads in sand going on in the U.S., people are finally beginning to recognize that the environment is dying, but it's far too late, and I am conflicted. David Slade

Too Late People Beginning Too Late Finally Recognize Environment Heads Am Going Dying Burying Sand Far Much

Ellis Island lies in New York Harbor 1,300 feet from Jersey City, New Jersey, and one mile from the tip of Manhattan. At the time of the first European settlement, it was mostly mud, sand, and oyster shells, which nearly disappeared at high tide. David Souter

Time First Ellis Settlement High City Lies Disappeared New Feet Tide Mostly Island Shells New Jersey York Tip New York Manhattan Which Sand Mud Mile Harbor European Jersey Nearly

It's not unexpected that shooting massive amounts of water, sand, and chemicals at high pressure into the earth to shatter shale and release natural gas might shake things up. But earthquakes aren't the worst problem with fracking. David Suzuki

Environmental Natural Problem Water Pressure Earth Earthquakes Release Worst High Shake Shatter Massive Chemicals Up Shooting Unexpected Natural Gas Sand Might Amount Things Gas

I'm quite a restless holidaymaker - I can't lie down on the sand and don't like too much heat. Deborah Meaden

Lie Too Much Down Too Restless Like Heat Quite Sand Much

I think a responsibility comes with notoriety, but I never think of it as power. It's more like something you hold, like grains of sand. If you keep your hand closed, you can have it and possess it, but if you open your fingers in any way, you can lose it just as quickly. Diana Ross

You Responsibility Power Lose Closed Think Way Possess Fingers Something More Never Open Like Hand Quickly Any Just Grains Hold Sand Your Notoriety Keep

My daughter, Charlotte Strawbridge, has recorded an album, and my favourite song from that is 'Empires Made Of Sand.' Dick Strawbridge

Song Made Daughter Favourite Charlotte Recorded Empires Sand Album

If you're a beach person or a golfer, Key West is not for you. Most of the sand has been imported, and the water is shallow until you've waded far out, and all the way the sea floor is covered with yucky algae and sea grass. Edmund White

One of the great pleasures in writing 'The Dream Lover' was learning about some of the real people who populated George Sand's life. What a cast of characters! And what a pleasure to recreate them upon the page! Elizabeth Berg

The key is to hit the ball first, then the sand. Even if you catch it a bit thin, you'll still get plenty of run. Hitting it fat is what you want to avoid. Ernie Els

You Key First Bit Plenty Run Catch Ball Still Hit Get Hitting Want Sand Then Avoid Even Thin Fat

With their souls of patent leather, they come down the road. Hunched and nocturnal, where they breathe they impose, silence of dark rubber, and fear of fine sand. Federico Garcia Lorca

Silence Dark Fear Down Fine Road Nocturnal Come Souls Leather Impose Patent Where Sand Breathe Down The Road Rubber

And when we draw lines in the sand with regard to certain basic things that are vital to our interest and to the interest of democracy and our friends around the world, we have to be willing to back that up. Fred Thompson

Democracy World Back Our Draw Willing Vital Around Lines Up Friends Regard Interest Sand Certain Basic Things Basic Things

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